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Cosmogenesis, Complexity, And Neo-Natural Faith In The Context Of Astrobiology, Kelly C. Smith

Publications

It is fair to say that religion, and in particular the ways in which some Christian and Islamic thinkers have again begun to encroach on the domain of science (e.g., global warming, the teaching of evolution), has caused a great deal of consternation within the scientific and philosophical communities. An understandable reaction to these developments is to reject out of hand even the slightest taint of religion in these fields—a position that has now attained the status of orthodoxy, at least in the western world. This is curious on its face, given the fact that religion has clearly provided a …

The Future Of Public Safety: A Collaborative Project By John Jay College Of Criminal Justice And The National Organization Of Black Law Enforcement Executives (Noble), National Organization Of Black Law Enforcement Executives (Noble), John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives partnered together on the “Future of Public Safety” series, which resulted in this report. In the series, we brought together John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives partnered together on the “Future of Public Safety” series, which resulted in this report. In the series, we brought together 38 individuals representing a diverse range of voices for “dialogue across differences.” Through everyone’s points of healthy disagreement, we identified nine core points of consensus that guided our work and …

Online Etiquette: Cancel Culture, Problematic Behavior And Social Media, Mia Pidlaoan, Rodrigo Gonzalez

Goal 1: Social Responsibility Narrative

Students will learn and partake in discussions about online etiquette, aspects of “cancel culture,” past incidents of misconduct and consequences of behavior online, real-life nuances regarding diversity, and problematic behavior.

Students are free to speak as much as they wish to. This conversation is heavily participant-based and healthy discourse is encouraged.

Cyle And Mig As Virulence Genes Of Streptococci Isolated From Mastitis In Cows And Buffaloes In Egypt, Rasha Elkenany

Mansoura Veterinary Medical Journal

Objective: A study is carried out to investigate the prevalence of mastitis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae and Streptococcus dysgalactiae in cows and buffaloes, their antibiotics susceptibility, minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC), and molecular investigation of some virulence genes. Samples: A total of 288 milk samples gathered from 72 mastitic animals from households and small-scale dairy farms in Egypt, were analyzed. Procedures: Isolation and identification of S. agalactiae and S. dysgalactiae were performed using conventional techniques. The identified isolates were examined for antimicrobial resistance by disk diffusion assay, MIC by broth microdilution method as well as virulence genes by PCR. Results: Forty-five …

The Use Of Bacteriophages For Food Safety, Lorraine Endersen, Aidan Coffey

Department of Biological Sciences Publications

The search for natural biocontrol agents that allow the production of foods that are safe for human consumption and do not impact the taste, texture, and nutritional quality of the food, is a constant challenge for diverse food industries worldwide, particularly as the human population continues to rise globally, and multiple antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is increasingly prevalent. Bacteriophages (phages), the naturally occurring predators of bacteria, are harmless to humans and animals and are ubiquitous in the environment — and as such, have been recognised as promising antimicrobial agents to help control specific bacterial pathogens in food production. This …

Creche Herald Vol. 24, No. 4, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Winter 2020 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

Biodiversity And Ecology Of Lichens Of Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska, Roger Rosentreter

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

We inventoried lichens in Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska, USA We assembled the known information on occurrence and ecology of lichens in this park by combining field, herbarium, and literature studies. Our results provide baseline data on lichen occurrence that may be used in resource condition assessments, vulnerability assessments, long-term ecological monitoring, and resource management. We report a total of 616 taxa of lichenized fungi from the Park, plus an additional five subspecies and three varieties, all of which are new additions to the National Park Service database for this park unit. An additional five species of nonlichenized lichenicolous …

Celebrating Liturgy In Schools: Catholic Identity In Song, Fiona Dyball

Pastoral Liturgy

No abstract provided.

Dec2020, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Uniformity In Place-Making: How A Focus On Image And Tradition Can Restrict Personal Expression And Repress Queer Identities, Julia Funk

Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Projects

This study looked at the University of Richmond campus, a campus built in a collegiate gothic style of and comprised of uniform buildings and highly managed landscaping. Specifically, it surveyed queer students at UR to ask about their experiences and feelings being on the UR campus. The survey found that a majority of the 44 surveyed students felt pressure to be or act straight, felt there was a lack of queer visibility on campus, felt most uncomfortable in the settings such as the Business School and Greek Life locations and most comfortable in personal housing. Overall, students liked how the …

3d Cell Culture: Techniques, Applications In Healthcare, And Future Challenges, Mukunthan K S

Manipal Journal of Science and Technology

Two-dimensional (2D) cell cultures have been the most commonly used technique since cell culture was first introduced. However, these cultures do not accurately represent animal physiology as many factors that play an important role in the growth of animal cells are overlooked. Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture techniques provide higher accuracy in recreating the microenvironment of native tissues. But, 2D cell culture techniques are still preferred for the majority of animal cell cultures as these are well established and relatively inexpensive. Various techniques have been developed for 3D cell culture but these systems are highly complex as the number of parameters …

A Musical Analysis Of The Improvisational Bebop Style Of Nat Adderley (1955–1964), Kyle Granville

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley was an American jazz artist active in New York City, Florida and Europe throughout his extensive musical career. A prominent cornet player and composer, Adderley was highly respected by many of his peers in New York City, Florida, as well as all over Europe. He spent a lot of time during his career performing with and composing for many renowned jazz musicians: Horace Silver, Oscar Pettiford, Johnny Griffin, Yusef Lateef and most notably his older brother, Cannonball Adderley. Collaborations with these notable musicians and many others, help cement Nat Adderley a well deserving spot in the jazz …

Modified Discrete-Forcing Immersed-Boundary Method For The Simulation Of Viscous Flows With Complex Boundaries, Ranjith Maniyeri

Manipal Journal of Science and Technology

This paper introduces a new framework for the location and determination of momentum forcing terms in a discrete forcing type immersed boundary method for calculating flow around the irregular shaped bodies. The proposed method is of discrete forcing type, simple, and convenient to apply. The momentum forces are calculated at the forcing points coinciding with the boundary or in the solid body using the velocities at the corresponding mirror points about the boundary in the fluid region. The velocity at forcing points is imposed to have the no- slip condition on the boundary satisfied. The equations governing the fluid flow …

When Are You Going To Catch Up With Me? Shu Lea Cheang With Alexandra Juhasz, Alexandra Juhasz

Publications and Research

“Digital nomad” Shu Lea Cheang and friend and critic Alexandra Juhasz consider the reasons for and implications of the censorship of Cheang’s 2017 film FLUIDØ, particularly as it connects to their shared concerns in AIDS activism, feminism, pornography, and queer media. They consider changing norms, politics, and film practices in relation to technology and the body. They debate how we might know, and what we might need, from feminist-queer pornography given feminist-queer engagements with our bodies and ever more common cyborgian existences. Their informal chat opens a window onto the interconnections and adaptations that live between friends, sex, technology, …

Dach1 Mutation Frequency In Endometrial Cancer Is Associated With High Tumor Mutation Burden, Mckayla J. Riggs, Nan Lin, Chi Wang, Dava W. Piecoro

Open Access archive

Objective DACH1 is a transcriptional repressor and tumor suppressor gene frequently mutated in melanoma, bladder, and prostate cancer. Loss of DACH1 expression is associated with poor prognostic features and reduced overall survival in uterine cancer. In this study, we utilized the Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN) Avatar database to determine the frequency of DACH1 mutations in patients with endometrial cancer in our Kentucky population. Methods We obtained clinical and genomic data for 65 patients with endometrial cancer from the Markey Cancer Center (MCC). We examined the clinical attributes of the cancers by DACH1 status by comparing whole-exome sequencing (WES), …

An Uml Based Performance Evaluation Of Real-Time Systems Using Timed Petri Net, Tanuja Shailesh, Ashalatha Nayak, Devi Prasad

Open Access archive

Performance is a critical non-functional parameter for real-time systems and performance analysis is an important task making it more challenging for complex real-time systems. Mostly performance analysis is performed after the system development but an early stage analysis and validation of performance using system models can improve the system quality. In this paper, we present an early stage automated performance evaluation methodology to analyse system performance using the UML sequence diagram model annotated with modeling and analysis of real-time and embedded systems (MARTE) profile. MARTE offers a performance domain sub-profile that is used for representing real-time system properties essential for …

Esat-6 Protein Of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Increases Holotransferrin-Mediated Iron Uptake In Macrophages By Downregulating Surface Hemochromatosis Protein Hfe, Vishwanath Jha, Ravi Pal, Dhiraj Kumar, Sangita Mukhopadhyay

Open Access archive

Iron is an essential element for Mycobacterium tuberculosis; it has at least 40 enzymes that require iron as a cofactor. Accessibility of iron at the phagosomal surface inside macrophage is crucial for survival and virulence of M. tuberculosis. ESAT-6, a 6-kDasecreted protein of region of difference 1, is known to play a crucial role in virulence and pathogenesis of M. tuberculosis. In our earlier study, we demonstrated that ESAT-6 protein interacts with b-2-microglobulin (b2M) and affects class I Ag presentation through sequestration of b2M inside endoplasmic reticulum, which contributes toward inhibition of MHC class I:b2M:peptide complex formation. The 6 aa …

Raps Sheet, December 2020, Retirement Association Of Portland State

RAPS Sheet: Monthly Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Cyanobacteria On Transgenerational Responses In Daphnia Pulicaria, Olivia Williams

2020 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

'Transgenerational plasticity' occurs when environmental cues alter the expression of traits in offspring and future generations. This experiment examined the influence of low-quality cyanobacteria (Anabaena) on across-generation responses in a common water flea (Daphnia pulicaria) to quantify whether changes in food quality from dietary cyanobacteria can induce transgenerational effects. Three Daphnia clones from Lake Mendota (WI) were maintained at 14C, 16:10 photoperiod until the third laboratory generation; animals from each clonal line were then reared for multiple generations on diets that contained varying amounts of cyanobacteria (either 100% Scenedesmus or 70% Scenedesmus, 30% Anabaena). General linear models and a posthoc …

Analysis Of Patterns Of Gene Expession With-In Species And Between Species Of Daphnia, Jenny Phan

2020 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Hybridization in the freshwater microcrustacean Daphnia occurs naturally and the interspecific hybrids have been found between several species, occupying many diverse types of freshwater habitats (e.g., lakes and ponds). A comparative analysis of gene expression from crosses of varied species of Daphnia is a powerful way to identify the evolutionary divergence of the genetic elements controlling the expression of genes. In this study, multiple within-species and between-species crossing experiments are performed. We then sequenced the transcriptomes of the obtained interspecific juvenile hybrids and to contrast the patterns of within-species gene expression divergence with between-species divergence. Transcriptomes were compared at 50 …

Determining The Role Of Low Molecular Weight Penicillin-Binding Proteins In Carbapenem Tolenerance In Aceinetobacter, Hana Ali

2020 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Antimicrobial resistance is a rapidly increasing threat to public health, where pathogens are no longer susceptible to antimicrobials prescribed to fight infections. Carbapenems are last-resort antimicrobials that bind penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) and inhibit cell wall biogenesis, leading to death. Specifically, the pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii (Ab) demonstrated carbapenem tolerance, or the ability of bacteria to survive in the toxic concentrations without changing the minimal inhibitory concentration. These data represent the first study to understand carbapenem tolerance in Ab. Here, we investigated the physiological significance of low molecular weight (LMW) PBPs, which have not been extensively studied in bacteria and could represent …

Supersize It! Developing A "Supercytoplast" Through Platelet Fusion, Taulbee B. Gunter

Animal Science Undergraduate Honors Theses

Stem cell research opens a wide range of possibilities from lab-grown tissues for medical purposes to cloned animals for livestock production. The issue with one of the most popular forms of cell recombination into a stem cell, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), is that it requires an oocyte. The requirement of an oocyte is often the host of public scrutiny for its economic and ethical issues. Platelets may offer a less expensive and more accessible alternative to oocytes as sources of naturally enucleated cells. Thus, the objective of this explorative research project is to isolate and fuse platelets …

Respiratory Illness And Household Air Pollution: Problem Identification And Intervention, Hannah Flournoy

The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses

This study is an expanded literature review that identifies the key concepts of Household Air Pollution (HAP) and the relationship it has with respiratory illness. This study identifies twenty research studies that inspect HAP and respiratory symptoms across a number of communities that utilize biomass fuel as their primary fuel source. It seeks to identify the problems that come with HAP, such as childhood respiratory infection, COPD, and other respiratory illnesses. This review seeks to identify if people in low to middle income countries, who utilize biomass fuel sources, see and improved respiratory outcome from using modern cookstoves and other …

Hydrologic & Hydraulic Analyses To Re-Establish Trigg Branch’S Jurisdictional Channel To Pre-Dam Condition Using Hec-Hms & Hec-Ras Models, Razak Ahmed Albarqaawee

Civil Engineering Theses - Archive

Birds strikes are the most prevalent cause of airplanes strikes, and retention ponds near airports are one of the most attractive spots for both immigrant and domestic wildlife USDA (2017). Since the Trigg Lake, water surface area covers around 46 acres and is located approx. 1.5 miles from four main runways, which make the lake a perfect shelter for birds to build their nests and eventually strike departing and/or landing aircraft. Based on a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) advisory circular, no retention pond should be constructed within five miles of an airport nor should it have standing storm runoff for …

Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Variances Of Pro-Phenol Oxidases In The Melanin Synthesis Cascade Between Human And Cnidarian Species By Using Cassiopea Xamachana, Ivan Ponce

2020 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

With the rise of global temperatures, cnidarians are becoming more susceptible to disease within oceanic environments. Cnidarians rely on innate immunity through the melanin synthesis cascade using the pro-phenol oxidase (PPO) “tyrosinase” to combat pathogens. Although the function of vertebrae PPO immune response is well annotated, it is tragically used as a cascade model to understand cnidarian immunity. This study focuses on the relationship between cnidarian, utilizing Cassiopea xamachana, and human melanin synthesis cascades. Bioinformatic programs such as Composition Profiler, Mega-X, SWISS-MODEL, and PFAM were used to analyze these species’ tyrosinases. The data show there were major differences between the …

Malaria, Microbes, And Mice: The Role Of The Gut Microbiota On The Immune Response To Plasmodium Infection And The Treatment Potential Of Microbiota Modulation., Morgan L. Waide

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Plasmodium infection leads to over 200 million cases of malaria and 400,000 deaths worldwide each year. These deaths are largely in children under the age of five and pregnant women [1]. Caused by transmission of Plasmodium parasites by the female Anopheles mosquito, malaria poses a risk for over 40 percent of the world’s population [1]. Despite worldwide efforts to eradicate malaria leading to a decrease in malaria-associated mortalities in the early 2000s [2], growing resistance to the available antimalarials and the lack of an effective, long-lasting vaccine has caused this decrease to plateau in recent years [1, 3-6]. Furthermore, malaria …

International Tourism As A Threat To Public Health In Thailand, Liam G. Lane

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

From its unique history, Thailand has embraced its independence and benefited from its cultural and natural beauty. Transitioning from an agricultural to industrial economy due to the emergence of a strong tourism industry, Thailand has experienced a period of intensive urbanization that has re-shaped Thai lifestyle. Materializing as regional and social disparities, these consequences of industrialization have seemingly divided Thai society, separating those who benefit from the tourism sector while marginalizing those who do not. Additionally, this transition has threatened public health statuses within Thailand, and considering the current tourism trends seen over the past 20 years there is a …

Smart Solar Charge Controller, Aria Pegah, Miclaine Emtman

Electrical Engineering

The technology of photovoltaics has been quickly evolving as we move toward a future with more clean energy. Energy conversion efficiency is key to making these systems the viable option amongst other sources of power. This project proposes a way to increase the power yield from a solar system by implementing smarter algorithms in the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) component of the system. MPPT is critical because environmental conditions may vary significantly for any given system due to irradiance and shading. The proposed method for MPPT utilizes a controller that uses swarm intelligence to do the power tracking.. This …

Telltale Marks: Looking Beyond Censorship Of Guantánamo, Aliana E. Sheers

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

In the United States, the government holds a storytelling monopoly; the stories it tells of Guantánamo dictate its reality, regardless of whether or not those stories are true. I will examine the government’s public statements about Guantánamo, then contrast these with covert communications and actions taken. Additionally, I will analyze iconic American images painted by detainees in classes at Guantánamo to garner the detainee perspective on the prison and the U.S. Acceptance of a single story is the antithesis of democracy; only when we strive to uncover the whole truth can we claim we have freedom of speech.